"I couldn’t believe that what Fujitsu was proposing was possible, but we ran the tests and were amazed by the performance on the number of discs. It was clearly the best solution at the best price and had the references to prove it."

Vincent te Koppele,
Head of ICT, Ziekenhuis Gelderse Vallei

The customer

Located in Ede in the Netherlands, the Gelderse Vallei Hospital (GVH) offers 34 medical disciplines under the auspices of 156 medical specialists. It also provides a large number of paramedical disciplines, including physiotherapy and dietetics. The hospital has over 500 beds and welcomes over 21,000 inpatients as well as 147,000 outpatients each year.

The challenge

Ziekenhuis Gelderse Vallei needed to replace an aging storage platform that could no longer deliver the necessary performance.

The solution

After inviting five resellers with their respective vendors to propose a solution, it selected SJ-Solutions, a Fujitsu Select Circle Partner and FUJITSU Storage ETERNUS DX200 S3 systems, based on the outstanding performance it offered on high-quality, cost-effective hardware.

The benefit

Migrated within five days with no disruption to the hospital

Easily scalable to enable future growth

Saved money due to best price performance ratio on offer

Peak performance runs at three times that required by the RFP

Environmentally friendly due to the lowest energy consumption in its class